Saviano, ‘social media without rules made Trump possible’

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 06 – “Without rules for social media, no democracy is any longer possible”: the writer Roberto Saviano writes it on his Instagram profile, accompanying the message with a photo of Donald Trump, on the day he won the elections US presidential elections. “Having allowed attention to be reduced to 8 seconds, allowing news to implode into the most ridiculous superficiality, having given space, centrality and authority to any nonentity with a handful of followers (often bought, therefore bots)… all experts in everything has democracy was destroyed – reflects Saviano – The political debate moved to social media was its execution. Yes, obviously the responsibility for Trump’s victory cannot be given only to social media; choice of their leaders also in not knowing how to stop the excessive power of big tech”. For Saviano, “the only objective is to make you stay as much as possible, to take data from you and sell it for advertising. Anyone who believes – me first and foremost an idiot – that there is more is deceiving themselves by fueling, as at the moment, a place that has no other reason that to make its consumers consume quickly, badly, and engage in the worst possible way. New social networks must be given, transparency imposed became X), of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok left without rules, without European competitors. Was TV better? No, but different, even plural. The best newspapers? it was possible and the line is controllable. Who reads newspapers anymore? In these horrible social networks, you are stuck and unaware of how they work. Change them? And how? From the Italian periphery, then?”, concludes Saviano. (ANSA).